Bøger i Hampton Press Communication serien

Addresses culture and civilization through a comparative lens. This book explores cultural fusion, exchange, mixing, clashing, and globalization. It also includes historical, textual, artistic, economic, anthropological, and sociological data.

This collection puts together the writings of Walter Ong, a scholar who has offered his own observations about voice, orality, speech, literacy, communication and culture.

Describes and assesses the nature and consequences of the increasing number of mergers among corporations in control of media that deliver content to audiences worldwide. The author examines how they are organized, the nature of their goals, and the implications of their continued growth.

This text presents a case-study account of a community project designed to enhance the quality of public communication through assisting academics, public professionals, and communication practitioners in developing community-building programmes.

This volume focuses on ""communibiology"", which provides a theoretical framework for developing and testing biologically-oriented communication theory.

This volume presents a range of information and analysis on the difficult relationship between the West and the Islamic world. It examines how the Western media has interpreted and misinterpreted Islam, the Arab world, and the countries of the contemporary Middle East.

Addresses culture and civilization through a comparative lens. This book explores cultural fusion, exchange, mixing, clashing, and globalization. It also includes historical, textual, artistic, economic, anthropological, and sociological data.

Explores the notion that the push toward marketization is the central force restructuring the communications landscape. This book examines the consequences of this development for the constitution of public culture. It analyzes the core institutional processes of marketization.

Offers an introduction to media ecology as a theory group that encompasses a coherent body of canonical literature and perspectives on understanding culture, technology and communication. This book explains some of media ecology's defining ideas, theories or themes about the interrelationship among culture, technology and communication.

Offers an introduction to media ecology as a theory group that encompasses a coherent body of canonical literature and perspectives on understanding culture, technology and communication. This book explains some of media ecology's defining ideas, theories or themes about the interrelationship among culture, technology and communication.

This text defines the phenomenon of politicking with e-mail in organizational settings. It outlines a model that explains and predicts the usage, and discusses the opportunities and threats that are associated with it. The book also speculates about evolving and future political uses of e-mail.

Examining how television covers the majority world, this study examines the paradox that during the period of rapidly increasing global connections, this medium is providing less and less world coverage. It offers a framework for understanding the relationship between globalization, television, and public understanding of the developing world.

These essays examine the relationship between two concepts - public opinion and democracy - central to social and political theories. They deal with forms of political institutionalization of public opinion and the relationship between mass media, opinion polling and broader issues of democracy.

This text aims to highlight Paolo Freire's influence on both the theory and practice of communications for development. It focuses on Freire's pedagogy and its implications for emancipation through learning.

Explores the notion that the push toward marketization is the central force restructuring the communications landscape. This book examines the consequences of this development for the constitution of public culture. It analyzes the core institutional processes of marketization.

Offering opinions regarding the nature, scope, purpose and function of the ""First Amendment"", this volume provides a cursory biography of the authors of 34 major theories concerning the ""Amendment"", a brief excerpt from the author's writing, and a description of the impact or effect of the theory on legal doctrine or societal concerns.

A compendium of readings concerning the influences of human and mediated communication to enable health care consumers and providers to enhance cancer care. This book discusses communication issues as gathering and interpreting health information, eliciting coordination, and providing social support and promoting psychosocial adjustment.

This text deals with ten important Jewish American comedians from an historical perspective and in a systematic manner. The focus is on the impact of Judaism on these humourists and on their relations to American culture and character.

This work deals with values and principles in human communication. It explores various kinds of values, including cultural, commercial, social, political, aesthetic and religious, as well as the philosophy of value.

A study of the state of communication research in Germany. The topics represent areas in which the German literature can either contribute significantly to the international research body or provide German-based results for international comparisons.